Hairpin



HAIRPIN Filed July 17, 1925 In when Z 54,

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Patented Apr. 13, 1926.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK A. ROFFEY, OF MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAIRPIN.

Application filed July 17, 1925. Serial No. 44,171.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, F RANK A. ROFFEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Milton, in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iairpins, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

The object of this invention is the construction of a hair pin to be used in bobbed hair which will not work out of place, but will continue firmly to grip a lock of short hair whatever the movements of the user may be.

I am familiar with hair pins provided with sinuous curves or undulations, which will remain in place where the hair is long but are practically useless in confining bobbed or short hair. My invention differs therefrom in providing the legs of the hair pin with rectangular bends, which I have found after repeat-ed trials to be perfectly adapted for the purpose specified.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Fig. 1 is an enlarged view of a hair pin embodying the preferred form of my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of a slight modification thereof.

The hair pin consists of two spaced parallel legs leomposed of any suitable mate rial, either wire or celluloid but preferably of medium fine wire, one or both legs being formed with one or more rectangular bends 2. Preferably each bend composes three sides of a square, and there are two bendsto each leg, the bends of one leg being staggered with respect to the bends of the othei leg, and also reaching away from the other In the form of the hairpin illustrated in Fig. 2, the bends of each leg are in line with the bends of the other leg; but I find that the arrangement first described gives the most satisfaction to the wearer, it serving to retain its grip upon a lock of short hair and 4 not to become dislodged no matter how violent the exercise of its user.

So far as I am able to determine, it is the parts of the hair pin bent out at right angles to the legs which serve to lock it securely in place.

What I claim as my invention is:

A hair pin each of Whose legs is formed with two bends each of which compose three sides of a rectangle, the bends on each leg reaching away from the other leg and being staggered with respect thereto.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing invention, I have hereunto set my hand this 14th day of July, 1925.

v FRANK A. ROFFEY. 

